15AND I WILL STRIKE [THE] HOUSE OF THE WINTER TO [THE] HOUSE OF THE SUMMER AND THEY WILL PERISH [THE] HOUSES OF <THE> IVORY AND PEOPLE WILL SNATCH AWAY HOUSES GREAT [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 15I will tear down the winter house along with the summer house; the houses of ivory will also perish, and the great houses will come to an end,” declares the LORD.
1HEAR THE WORD <THE> THIS O COWS OF <THE> BASHAN WHO [ARE] ON [THE] MOUNTAIN OF SAMARIA WHO OPPRESS POOR [PEOPLE] WHO CRUSH NEEDY [PEOPLE] WHO SAY TO MASTERS THEIR BRING! SO WE MAY DRINK Punishment Brings No Repentance 1Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”
2HE HAS SWORN [THE] LORD YAHWEH BY HOLINESS HIS FOR HERE! DAYS [ARE] COMING ON YOU AND SOMEONE WILL TAKE AWAY <OBJ.> YOU WITH BARBS AND POSTERITY YOUR WITH HOOKS OF FISHING 2The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
3AND BREACHES YOU WILL GO OUT EACH BEFORE HERSELF AND YOU WILL THROW <THE> HARMON TOWARDS [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 3You will go out through broken walls, each one straight ahead of her, and you will be cast out toward Harmon,*NoteCloseThat is, possibly Mount Hermon ” declares the LORD.
4COME BETH- -EL AND TRANSGRESS <THE> GILGAL INCREASE TO TRANSGRESS AND BRING TO THE MORNING SACRIFICES YOUR TO THREE DAYS TITHES YOUR 4“Go to Bethel and transgress; rebel even more at Gilgal! Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tithes every three days.*NoteCloseOr years
5AND MAKE SMOKE FROM A THING LEAVENED A THANK-OFFERING AND PROCLAIM FREEWILL OFFERINGS MAKE [THEM] HEARD FOR THUS YOU LOVE O PEOPLE OF ISRAEL [THE] UTTERANCE OF [THE] LORD YAHWEH 5Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
6AND ALSO I I GAVE TO YOU CLEANNESS OF TEETH IN ALL CITIES YOUR AND LACK OF BREAD IN ALL PLACES YOUR AND NOT YOU RETURNED TO ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 6I afflicted all your cities with cleanness of teeth*NoteCloseThat is, with empty stomachs and all your towns with lack of bread, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
7AND ALSO I I WITHHELD FROM YOU <OBJ.> THE RAIN IN YET THREE MONTHS [WERE] TO THE HARVEST AND I SENT RAIN ON A CITY ONE AND ON A CITY ONE NOT I SENT RAIN A PORTION OF GROUND ONE IT WAS RAINED ON AND A PORTION OF GROUND WHICH NOT IT SENT RAIN ON IT IT DRIED UP 7“I also withheld the rain from you when the harvest was three months away. I sent rain on one city but withheld it from another. One field received rain; another without rain withered.
8AND THEY STAGGERED TWO THREE CITIES TO A CITY ONE TO DRINK WATER AND NOT THEY WERE SATISFIED AND NOT YOU RETURNED TO ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 8People staggered from city to city for water to drink, but they were not satisfied; yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
9I STRUCK <OBJ.> YOU WITH <THE> BLIGHT AND WITH <THE> MILDEW TO MAKE MANY GARDENS YOUR AND VINEYARDS YOUR AND FIG TREES YOUR AND OLIVE TREES YOUR IT ATE THE LOCUST AND NOT YOU RETURNED TO ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 9“I struck you with blight and mildew in your growing gardens and vineyards; the locust devoured your fig and olive trees, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
10I SENT AMONG YOU PESTILENCE IN [THE] MANNER OF EGYPT I KILLED BY THE SWORD YOUNG MEN YOUR WITH [THE] CAPTURE OF HORSES YOUR AND I CAUSED TO GO UP [THE] STENCH OF CAMP YOUR <AND> IN NOSE YOUR AND NOT YOU RETURNED TO ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 10“I sent plagues among you like those of Egypt; I killed your young men with the sword, along with your captured horses. I filled your nostrils with the stench of your camp, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
11I OVERTHREW AMONG YOU LIKE [THE] OVERTHROW OF GOD <OBJ.> SODOM AND <OBJ.> GOMORRAH AND YOU WERE LIKE A PIECE OF FIREWOOD PLUCKED OUT FROM [THE] BURNING AND NOT YOU RETURNED TO ME [THE] UTTERANCE OF YAHWEH 11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand*NoteCloseThat is, a burning stick snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
12<TO> THEREFORE THUS I WILL DO TO YOU O ISRAEL CONSEQUENCE FOR THIS I WILL DO TO YOU BE PREPARED TO MEET GOD YOUR O ISRAEL 12“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!
13FOR HERE! [ONE WHO] FORMED MOUNTAINS AND [ONE WHO] CREATED WIND AND [ONE WHO] TELLS TO HUMANKIND WHAT? [IS] THOUGHT HIS [ONE WHO] MAKES <OF> DAWN DARKNESS AND [ONE WHO] TREADS ON [THE] HIGH PLACES OF [THE] EARTH [IS] YAHWEH GOD OF HOSTS NAME HIS 13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth— the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”